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Dearth in Venice
As Venice approaches its climax, debate continues as to the value of a film market during the event. Both new Biennale head Franco Bernabe and current artistic director Moritz De Hadeln are in favour - while others remain dismissive.The Italian name "Mostra", which covers all the Biennale activities, suggests the ...
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Battle of the delegations
The Bear's Kiss, a Russian fantasy in competition at Venice, is accompanied by a massive official delegation of no less than 45 people. Given the high prices for hotels and restaurants in Venice, the hospitality bill could end up equalling a significant chunk of the $7m budget.The film by veteran ...
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Red Light Runners faces financial greenlight hurdle
Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen, has hit another financing roadblock.A spokesperson for the film confirmed that Germany's Fierce Entertainment, which purportedly stepped in with a deal for 70% of the funding, was no longer part of the project. Madsen ...
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European Film Awards announces People's Choice nominations
September 1st 2002 marked the start of the annual opportunity for European filmgoers to participate in the European Film Awards' People's Choice. Through a variety of outlets, cinemagoers can vote for their favourites, from the past year's films, in the categories of best European director, actor and actress. The ...
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Almodovar set to dazzle at Goyas
Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) looks set to sweep the Goya Awards, Spain's answer to the Oscars, in an already auspicious award season for the director.Almodovar's 13th film grabbed fourteen Goya nominations and is tipped to win several top categories. Competing with Mother for best ...
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Picture This! picks up US video rights to DAYS and Abandoned
Doug Witkins' PictureThis! Entertainment, which specialises in the distribution and internationalsales of gay, lesbian and bisexual cinema, has picked up LauraMuscardin's DAYS from Italyand Arpad Sopsits' Abandonedfrom Hungary for US video release and festival bookings. Abandoned, which was screened at the Montreal, Toronto andBerlin film festivals among others, is the ...
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THINKFilm, Columbia TriStar strike three-picture US home video deal
THINKFilm, the NorthAmerican distibution outfit which was launched at the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival last year, has entered into a three-picture home entertainmentdistribution deal with Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (CTHE). The first film on the slateis The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys starring and produced by Jodie Foster followed by BartFreundlich's ...
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Fox Searchlight reteams with Broken Lizard on Club Dread
Fox Searchlight Pictures isreteaming with director Jay Chandrasekhar and his Broken Lizard comedy group,the team behind its Sundance acquisition hit Super Troopers, on Broken Lizard's Club Dread. The film, which has already started principalphotography in Mexico, also stars Bill Paxton.Searchlight picked up SuperTroopers at Sundance 2001 andgrossed $18.5m on its ...
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Killer strikes first-look deal with Warner Bros
Killer Films,the prolific New York-based production company which is synonymous with theindependent film movement of the 1990s, has signed a one year, first-look dealwith Warner Bros Pictures. The deal is primarily for films in the $10m to $25mrange such as Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven or Mark Romanek's One HourPhoto ...
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De Hadeln gets to choose if he stays on
Discussion of whether stand-in artistic director Moritz De Hadeln, will be allowed by Biennale organisers to keep the top job has been the favourite rumour throughout Venice this year. But the decision could be in his own hands.It is neither clear that the former Berlin and one-time Locarno chief has ...
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Dearth in Venice
As Venice approaches its climax, debate continues as to the value of a film market during the event. Both new Biennale head Franco Bernabe and current artistic director Moritz De Hadeln are in favour - while others remain dismissive.The Italian name 'Mostra', which covers all the Biennale activities, suggests the ...
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Ripley's Game
Dir: Liliana Cavani. It-UK. 2002. 112mins.Liliana Cavani, the veteran Italian director, was presumably brought in to direct this Patricia Highsmith novel in the hope that some of the dark menace of her drama The Night Porter might rub off on Ripley. If so, then the gamble has failed, at least ...
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Fierce Entertainment denies Red Light Runners deal
In a further bizarre twist to the film's financing - or lack of it - Fierce Entertainment has denied any commitment to Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen.Producer Clark Westerman had announced that the financier had stepped in as an ...
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Nine new films join San Sebastian's Cinema In Progress initiative
Seven Latin American and two Spanish films will be included in the second phase of the newly created Cinema In Progress (Cine En Construccion) joint initiative of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28) and the Latin American Screenings of Toulouse to find funding for stalled Latin American productions.Jose ...
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The Man On The Train (L'Homme Du Train)
Dir: Patrice Leconte. France. 2002. 90 mins.One of the real audience-pleasers in competition at this year's Venice festival, The Man On The Train (L'Homme Du Train) pairs veteran French actor Jean Rochefort with rocker Johnny Hallyday in a changing-places comedy drama that manages to be both quirky and moving. Although ...
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Lions Gate grabs $32m
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation has secured a welcome $32m investment from a group led by Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures Inc, Scandinavia's SBS Broadcasting and Germany's Tele-Munchen Group.The move sees the investment group receive warrants and convertible shares that could amount to a 37% stake in Lions Gate. Amongst other companies ...
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Buena Vista Spain boosts local co-production slate
Having officially entered the local production sector last year, Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS) is negotiating a potential slate of five to six new co-productions for 2003.The multinational, which distributed the country's top grossing domestic hit this year: The Wrong Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama), ...
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Six Korean directors to create human rights omnibus
The South Korean Human Rights Commission has announced plans to assemble six high-profile Korean directors to shoot an omnibus-style collection of short films dealing with themes related to discrimination and human rights.Five directors have already signed on to the project - Park Chan-wook (JSA), Jeong Jae-eun (Take Care Of My ...
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UK's Rebellion launches tax-based financing scheme
UK games software company Rebellion has launched a tax-based scheme to finance feature adaptations of strips from 2000AD, the long-running UK comic book best known for lawman and cult icon Judge Dredd.The company aims to raise private investment through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), the tax-based initiative that Reservoir Dogs ...
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Buffalo Soldiers get to go home
Buffalo Soldiers, FilmFour and Focus' long-delayed GI's and drugs picture, is finally set to get its first release more than a year after premiering at Toronto on the eve of September 11.While many buyers are still worried about escalating tensions between the US and Iraq, Prokino/Fox has announced it will ...